A former radical who insisted on representing herself at trial is now seeking release from prison because, she argues, the judge should have ignored her words and supplied her with a lawyer. Judith Clark, a former associate of Kathy Boudin, is...

To the Editor: Is Thomas Powers warning us of factual inaccuracy and scurrilous innuendo when he says that Susan Braudy tells the story of the Boudin family ''with a novelist's progression of incident and detail'' in her book ''Family Circle''...

November 30, 2003, Sunday

To the Editor: I was troubled by Thomas Powers's assertion, in his review of Susan Braudy's ''Family Circle'' (Nov. 2), that Kathy Boudin and the violent wing of the New Left constituted a ''failure'' -- ''as pointless and damaging, in its way, as...